Jessica’s advocacy stems from the belief that classical music must be innovative, relevant, and accessible to everyone.

Jessica completed her Executive MBA in Arts Innovation from the Global Leaders Institute in 2023. She holds certificates from Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation in Negotiation and Leadership, NYU’s School of Professional Studies in Nonprofit Arts Management, and Cornell University in Labor Relations. She was a member of the 2022 cohort of The League of American Orchestra’s program on Essentials of Orchestra Management, and the 2021 cohort of OPERA America’s Leadership Intensive.

Jessica currently serves as one of the Program Lead Faculty members for the Global Leadership Institute’s partnership with the Concert Artist Guild’s Social Impact Program. She also serves on the faculties of the Center for Music Entrepreneurship at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, where she brings her passion and knowledge of music education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and community engagement in support of the next generation of musicians and the future of the Arts.

She has been a frequent guest speaker, presenter, and panelist discussing negotiations, unions, musician advocacy, nonprofit organizations, and diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Lincoln Center Conference Curriculum for Change, Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival, the League of American Orchestras, Opera America’s Leadership Intensive, Changing the Narrative: Young Professionals Leadership Development Program, the International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians (ICSOM), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Center for Innovative Leadership, and the Wagner Society.

She has served on the Governing Board of ICSOM (International Conference of Symphonic and Opera Musicians) and the Executive Board of Local 802 American Federation of Musicians in New York City. She continues to serve on the board of The Field, a nonprofit organization that seeks to disrupt the scarcity mindset for artists and endeavors to empower and elevate artists of all disciplines, backgrounds, and career stages to achieve prosperity.

Experienced in nonprofit management, labor relations, communications, and strategic planning, Jessica focuses on strategic public relations, education, and the power of the arts to forge deeper community connections. She cut her teeth as Chair of the MET Orchestra Committee where she led two negotiations in 2014 and 2018, which produced creative, often paradigm-shifting solutions to complex issues. In 2023, she served on the AFM Steering Committee for the AMPTP negotiations.

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